Kazakhstan's births have fallen by a quarter since 2021
Registered live births in Kazakhstan, thousands, selected years 2000–2025.
- 1. The world has already passed peak child
- 2. Japan's median age is more than three times Niger's
- 3. South Korea now has a quarter of its 1971 births
- 4. China's population is projected to more than halve by 2100
- 5. Japan now has over 100,000 centenarians, up from 153
- 6. Japan has 9 million empty homes: one in seven
- 7. More Christians live in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else
- 8. Two in three people live where fertility is below replacement
- 9. Japan's births fell below half their 1899 level
- 10. Brazil now has more people over 65 than Germany
- 11. 34 countries and territories are past their population peak
- 12. Chile's fertility rate fell below Italy's and Japan's
- 13. Thailand's births have fallen below its deaths
- 14. Women hold at least half the seats in seven parliaments
- 15. Child marriage in South Asia has nearly halved since 2005
- 16. Argentina's teen birth rate fell 60% in ten years
- 17. Sri Lanka's population has shrunk three years in a row
- 18. Bangladesh's births per woman have fallen by two-thirds since 1970
- 19. China now has more university students than preschoolers
- 20. Uruguay now records more deaths than births
- 21. Kazakhstan's births have fallen by a quarter since 2021
Births in 2025 (335,005) against the 2021 peak (446,491), after four falls in a row.
The last year Kazakhstan registered fewer births than in 2025, after births had doubled between 2000 and 2021.
The fall in rural births since 2021, against −22% in towns: smaller school intakes follow from about 2028.
the numbers & method
| Live births (k) | |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 222 |
| 2005 | 279 |
| 2010 | 368 |
| 2015 | 399 |
| 2019 | 402 |
| 2020 | 427 |
| 2021 | 447 |
| 2022 | 404 |
| 2023 | 388 |
| 2024 | 366 |
| 2025 | 335 |
Claim types Fact · Interpretation
Bureau of National Statistics, Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Taldau indicator 703839 (number of live births), Republic of Kazakhstan, total (urban + rural, both sexes), read from the Taldau API. Live births: 2000 222,054; 2005 278,977; 2007 321,963; 2008 357,555; 2010 367,707; 2015 398,458; 2019 402,310; 2020 426,824; 2021 446,491 (series high); 2022 403,893; 2023 388,428; 2024 365,923; 2025 335,005. Urban 262,507 (2021) to 204,907 (2025); rural 183,984 to 130,098. The chart shows selected years (five-year steps to 2015, then every year from 2019). Percent changes are progrss calculations. 2021 was an unusually high year: 2025 is also 17% below pre-pandemic 2019. 2025 is the latest published figure and may be revised. The plate claims no cause; the school-intake line (children born from 2022 reach school age from about 2028) is an interpretation.
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